Former Narayanganj City Corporation mayor Dr Selina Hayat Ivy has been sent to Kashimpur Women’s Central Jail in Dhaka.
Narayanganj District Jail Superintendent Mohammad Forkan Wahid confirmed this information on Friday afternoon.
Earlier, Narayanganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Mainuddin Quadir’s court ordered her to be sent to jail in a case filed over the killing of garment worker Minarul in Siddhirganj during the July uprising.
Inspector Qayum Khan of the Narayanganj district court said that the police did not apply for her remand, adding that no bail was sought either.
When she was taken into custody, the court ordered her to be sent to jail in the murder case, he added.
She was taken to prison at 2pm on Friday. Senior Jail Superintendent of Kashimpur Central Women’s Jail Kawalin Nahar confirmed the matter.
However, she said she could not provide further details at the moment. “We will be able to share more information once our procedures are completed,” she added.
Previously, around 11:30pm on Thursday, a team from Narayanganj Sadar model police station went to Ivy’s ancestral home, Chunka Kutir, to arrest her.
But to prevent her arrest, locals and her party workers surrounded her house.
At the time, the Awami League leader said that she must be arrested in daylight, so the police stayed at her house all night.
Later, her arrest took place at around 6am. She was taken to the Narayanganj Detective Branch (DB) office.
While she was being taken there, miscreants started pelting bricks and stones at the police convoy.
